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David Hyde Pierce says there wasn't a "Eureka!" moment when it occurred to him to set Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners in manors, "The Importance of Being Earnest" with the playwright's characters as transplanted American gangsters in the 1930s. In the Williamstown Theatre Festival season opening show — in which Pierce deftly directs — Algernon and Jack Worthing are mid-level hoods, Cecily and Gwendolen are a couple of molls, the butler Lane is a spaghetti sauce-stirring bodyguard, and Lady Bracknell, as portrayed by Tyne Daly, is one tough cookie who packs heat in more ways than one. "I've always loved the play," says...

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